Best known as the co-creator of the popular Rider-Waite Tarot deck, A. E. Waite (1857-1952) is the author of the widely consulted Pictorial Key to the Tarot. Waite was also a noted historian of the occult and a respected expert on ceremonial magic whose many books included surveys of Rosicrucianism, Kabbalism, Freemasonry, and alchemy.